‘Bring in Erdogan, dead or alive’

President Erdogan dodged death at the hands of coup conspirators by minutes, his office has revealed.

Rogue special forces commandos with a brief to detain Mr Erdogan and take him to the capital, Ankara, “dead or alive” burst into his hotel in the holiday resort of Marmaris only 15 minutes after he had left to board his presidential jet. Up to 25 of the elite soldiers dropped into the hotel compound from helicopters, echoing the operation in which three generals were taken hostage from a wedding party in an elite Istanbul members’ club an hour earlier.

President Erdogan left a hotel in Marmaris just 15 minutes before it was raided by rogue soldiersReuters

The commandos went “room to room asking for the president and his family”, according to the presidential spokesman Ibrahim Kalin. One bodyguard who had remained in the hotel was…